Holocene vegetation cycles, land-use, and human adaptations to desertification in the Gobi Desert of MongoliaEarly pastoralismMongolian prehistoryGobi DesertDesertificationPhytolithsEarly Bronze AgeSince the end of the Pleistocene some 11,700 years ago, the landscape and vegetation of the Mongolian Gobi...
Slowly, over time, they put the ways of thousands of years behind them, and they began to diversify culturally, developing new environmental adaptations, incorporating larger bands, constructing more durable housing, manufacturing more complex stone tool assemblages, and weaving plant-fiber mats and ba...
while most of the evidence of genomic adaptations is related to the hunter-gatherer transition to agricultural societies, little is known on the influence of other major cultural manifestations. Shamanism is considered the oldest religion that predominated throughout most of human ...
they influence all other inhabitants of the ecosystem to a greater or lesser degree. At one end of the scale they may have had limited contact, although people likely have always noticed birds and almost certainly been in awe of their ability to soar in the skies above. Likewise...
It is now widely accepted that the dawn of humanity lies in Africa, and modern man’s ancestors originated on this continent. The birthplace of all new human groups has always been south of a great barrier we now call the Sahara Desert, leading to the phrase ‘sub-Saharan’ Africa. It ...
GR:Numerous studies have documented the negative impact human presence has on wildlife. Animals avoid areas frequented by people. This is why we must avoid building trails in important habitats. Strolling along a desert stream bank might be pleasing for people, but it is frightening for wildlife...
Danuvius guggenmosi moved using extended limb clambering, thus combining adaptations of bipeds and suspensory apes and providing evidence of the evolution of bipedalism and suspension climbing in the common ancestor of great apes and humans. Madelaine Böhme Nikolai Spassov David R. Begun Article6...
signaling similar adaptations in diet or reproductive and social behavior. The only way to find out how all these species are related to one another and to us is to find more bones. In particular, researchers need to find more overlapping parts of very early fossils so they can be compared...
InPhysical Violence in American Families: Risk Factors and Adaptations to Violence in 8145 Families, M. Straus and R. Gelles, eds. Pp. 151–165. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers. Google Scholar Straus, M., and R. Gelles 1986 Societal Change and Change in Family Violence ...
Attempts to correlate the degree of karyotypic diversity within mammal taxa in general and primate taxa in particular with morphological adaptations and evolutionary change have proven to be rather elusive and not always conclusive. Prosimii The number of chromosomes varies between 2n = 20 and 2n =...